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  • Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

    White   Black   Prejudice  
    Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.19, Hill and Wang
  • if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.

    Hate   Racism   Pet  
    Josephine Lawrence (1945). “Let Us Consider One Another”, New York ; London : . Appleton-Century
  • Once you get past the grand normative claims made in the West for literature, especially the novel, in the post-Christian era - that it is a secular substitute for religion, hallmark of modern civilization, a priori liberal and cosmopolitan, with authors appearing to implicitly embody such pious ideals - you encounter a less agreeable reality: parochialism, blinkered views, even racial prejudices of the kind the bourgeoisie have held everywhere.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • There was not one cause for our internment, but many - a deep-seated racial prejudice working on top of fear, distrust, and greed. So how is one to say exactly where history begins or ends? It is all slow oscillations, curves, and waves which take so long to reveal themselves ... like watching a tree grow.

    Curves   Long   Racism  
    Gretel Ehrlich (2017). “Heart Mountain: A Novel”, p.38, Open Road Media
  • The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

    Light   Risk   Prejudice  
  • The issue of racism and racial prejudice. It is very, very difficult to discuss. It is difficult to discuss the issue of apartheid. Many have made the observation that it is very difficult to find anyone in SA who ever supported apartheid because everyone was opposed, it was against our will and so on.

    Issues   Racism   People  
    Interview with Lionel Barber, www.ft.com. April 3, 2007.
  • Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

    Life   Powerful   Past  
  • In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

    Kings   Stars   Racism  
    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.106, Beacon Press
  • My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

    Race   Parent   Mind  
  • People need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race. It would be a good thing if all people were treated equally and justly and not be discriminated against because of race or religion or anything that makes them different from others.

    Believe   Race   People  
  • I think there's an awakening now of a realization that we too early congratulated ourselves on the end of racial prejudice and white supremacy. And that was a feeling that we had when I was president, that we had pretty much overcome that problem.

    Source: www.sfgate.com
  • Now, personally, I am baffled by the concept of racial prejudice. Why hate someone based on the color of their skin when, if you take the time to get to know them as a human being, you can find so many other things to hate them for?

    Hate   Color   Skins  
    Dennis Miller (2010). “Rants”, p.57, Main Street Books
  • Men should continue to fight, but they should fight for things worth while, not for imaginary geographical lines, racial prejudices and private greed draped in the color's of patriotism.

    Albert Einstein (1933). “The fight against war”
  • Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

    Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.80, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.

    Kenneth B. Clark (1988). “Prejudice and Your Child”, p.6, Wesleyan University Press
  • Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it.

    Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”
  • No mathematician of equal stature has risen from our generation... Hilbert was singularly free from national and racial prejudices; in all public questions, be they political, social or spiritual, he stood forever on the side of freedom.

    Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.93, Courier Corporation
  • I was raised to think about philosophy and religious thought and the soul and the spirit of humankind in a different way, also really socially progressive teachings of the Baha'i faith, the equality of men and women, the elimination of racial prejudice, the equality of science and religion, so it was a big cauldron of big ideas in my household. And we were weird and unhappy family, but nonetheless that was a really positive thing that came out of it.

    Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.
  • The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

    Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.54, St. Martin's Press
  • Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.

  • Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her beautiful, unselfish spirit shines out like a bright star in the night of a dark and cruel age. Love like Ruth's, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world.

    Life   Beautiful   Stars  
    Helen Keller, SBP Editors (2017). “The Story of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.93, Samaira Book Publishers
  • Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.

    Mother   Children   Evil  
  • I went to Catholic school my entire life. Elementary school was probably my worst time - those are the years when you're figurin' out who you are, and then you've got the added pressure of being on the light-skinned side of things. I've been around - excuse me saying - predominantly white people in Catholic school, who sit around and just talk about black people because they thought they were in the presence of themselves, and they used to talk cool. I felt firsthand the racial prejudice that is still alive today.

    School   Light   Years  
    Source: www.djbooth.net
  • ... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.

    Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.151, Take Root Media
  • Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices.

  • My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

  • There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence, in a new form, of racial prejudice.

  • Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings.

    Kenneth B. Clark (1988). “Prejudice and Your Child”, p.37, Wesleyan University Press
  • Wherever you go - in every country, or in every continent, people yearn and hunger for only one thing, to love and be loved. Love transcends international boundaries and heals the wounds of hatred, racial, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance. It is the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

  • Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling memoirs of recent years. Vivid, precise, and utterly honest, How I Shed My Skin is a time-machine of sorts, a reminder that our past is every bit as complex as our present, and that broad cultural changes are often intimate, personal, and idiosyncratic.

    School   Past   Self  
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